Pixar character sculptor Jerome Ranft presents at Kapiʻolani CC

Kapiʻolani Community College hosts a presentation by Jerome Ranft, the character sculptor from Pixar Animation Studios on Wednesday, April 1, 7–9 p.m. at Kapiʻolani CC, ʻŌhia 118.

The lecture is free and open to the public due to the generous donation from the Wallis Foundation.

Bringing characters to life

Ranft has been the character sculptor at Pixar Animation for 18 years. He sculpts from the character designers’ images and then collaborates with them to create the look of the characters in Pixar’s films.

He sculpted characters for award-winning animations including Brave, Ratatouille, Cars, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2, Up, James and the Giant Peach, Nightmare Before Christmas and many more.

[…] While Pixar is known for its incredible technical and artistic achievements in computer generated imagery, however, there’s a lot more that goes into the magic you see on screen. And one of the talents behind the scenes is coming to Hawaii to talk about his work next week. […]